The recently arrived Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water has (somewhat unexpectedly) been subjected to an excessive abundance of censorship, after many believed the skimpy DLC costumes would be the only victims – unfortunately, according to Nintendo, the mere sight of a girl in a bikini is all too hazardous to the M-rated game’s impressionable western audience…

A video courtesy of a French player, depicting the difference between the Japanese and European versions of the game:

Considering the appearance of Miu in her bikini is part of her job as an idol and not just gratuitous service causes this bizarre alteration to make even less sense…

Should have left the Fatal Frame franchise on Playstation.
Nintendo's probably afraid of upsetting French Muslim
fanatics who will then declare a fatwah on Mario, Zelda and the rest of their roster. I'm surprised she isn't dressed in a burhka.

Well here is the rub in the U.S. it would still be a dodgy issue to have "underaged girls" meaning less than 18 years old being "sexed up" so Sony would run into the same issue. I remember when DOA for came out some of the characters had to be aged up.

People get into lots of trouble if the comment on the "hotness" of a teenager here in the states

It wouldn't have stayed a franchise if it wasn't for Nintendo, KT were going to drop it because it didn't make the dough. I admit this sucks, and the localisation in general is kinda meh, but I'm happier for this game to be censored than never exist.

...Nintendo just needs to die already...that and all forms of censorship. I blame Christianity for all the bullshit censorship in America. If we don't believe in magic, pagan gods, and eclipses signifying the end of the world, the why do we believe in something equally as stupid but far less fun? The main point is that most sex/nudity related censorship laws (and polygamy laws) exist because of what the church says is "immoral". The most ironic part being this country being founded on separation of church and state...among other things, but whatever.

I assumed it was done to avoid incurring unwanted aggression from militant feminists which the west seems to have a serious problem with remember what happened with the scientist who landed a device on that comet remember his shirt?

OK guys, let's understand something very carefully: the censorship laws in America is actually LESS strict compared to the EU, because as we all know, the EU (yeah, that's right, all of them European countries) actually censors more crap than the US, and in actuality, there's more sexualism in American shows than in European shows. TRUTH. An outside example is if you've ever watched something violent that is an American show, there'd actually be some censorship to that same show if it airs in Europe. (bad example: try the WWE... yeah, wrestling. it's actually more censored according to European friends I know.)

Spaniard here. I can tell you we had enough censorship with Franco for millenia to come. Our laws are truly lax with violence, improper language and sex in the media. Basically the censorship is for the timeslot it can be aired (on TV) or recommended age (for sale purposes), anything else is always selfcensoring from the creator or distribution company.

What are you talking about? the UK has fuck all censorship. Have you not seen our media and magazines? There's literally tits every where. Germany and Australia are the ones with the strict censorship laws. We give no fucks here

I remember old PC games sold with a physical key to unlock the uncensored versions during play. They could do something similar if they really wanted.
That way the game the parents pirate for their kids would be censored and people who buy it and want to, could uncensor them.

Does Nintendo not watch US TV? They have tits all over the place and Europe can get even more liberal with titties. I think this is far more Nintendo overreacting. I dont get why they do this unless they trying to market the game to kids.

It basically is gay propaganda, because if it were floppy cocks fanserice or something, I guarantee that you wouldn't hear one peep about it from the sjws and feminazis. The only reason the haters press for the censorship of this content as they perceive it as a means to check the privilege of cis straight males by fucking with our vidya.

Guys I just googled "women in not clothes" and found something strange. Apparently under shirts and dresses women have skin and stuff, I think they are called breasts and legs. Whole new world here, I think Nintendo should know. Can someone get Reggie's phone number?